Nuclear power plants harness the energy of countless atoms of uranium splitting apart, or fissioning, in a chain reaction. Heavy water can help keep such a chain reaction going. As each uranium ...

This research could not only provide an alternative uranium source but also reduce environmental contamination. With the International Atomic Energy Agency projecting that global ...

A provision in the secret, controversial agreement allowing a private company to transport uranium ore across the Arizona ...

During that time, company reports say, its collection wells have pumped out billions of gallons of contaminated water. Nearly one million pounds of uranium have been removed from the groundwater ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — The mountains east of Roosevelt Lake, known as the Sierra Anchas, are home to more than one dozen uranium mines, which operated in the 1950s and 1960s. Today, those mines ...

Uranium is found in trace amounts in all rocks and soil, in water and air, and in materials made from natural substances. It is a reactive metal, and, therefore, it is not present as free uranium in ...

Community members like Lehi and other organizers gathered March 25 for a forum at the Mexican Water Chapter in Utah, more than a month after Energy Fuels resumed transporting uranium ore from the ...

It’s defined as the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water by 1 degree Celsius (2.2 pounds by 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit)." Under this definition, uranium is ...

Executive Chairman, William M. Sheriff, stated: "At any given concentration of dissolved uranium in water, the more solution you pump, the more uranium that can be captured. At the Alta Mesa CPP ...